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Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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Every country in that region sucks. Especially Iraq through Afghanistan. Let them kill each other off.
The Americans who show support for Palestine would get their heads chopped off if they visited that place. It's a bit ironic to support a country that hates Americans.
It's alright, anything to root against the Jews, who were actually involved in a genocide. And fairly recently. 6 million Jews. And people wonder why they're so defensive against attacks.
The same WW2 vets that fought the actual Nazis are getting booed today. From the few videos I've seen, I hope that's a minority of shitbags.
Hamas isn't our friend. You can't ignore Oct 7th, that was shitty in and of itself no matter if Israel provoked it or not. Israel is an ally. Palestine is not.
Fuck the people whose rooting against Israel just because Trump supports them.
I'm not here to start any fights. I've been to that region, and they really don't want any interference from the west. Especially after the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
"Let them kill each other off" is a cold way to talk about a conflict where one side is a nuclear-armed state backed by the West, and the other is a stateless people under occupation. This isn’t a fair fight—it’s a military superpower bombing refugee camps, hospitals, and UN schools while starving 2 million civilians.
You claim Palestinians would "chop heads off" Americans, but the U.S. has armed Israel for decades while it bulldozes homes, steals land, and locks millions in an open-air prison. If Palestinians hate American policy, can you blame them? Meanwhile, Israel gets billions in U.S. weapons while its politicians call for the "flattening of Gaza." Who’s really the ally here?
Yes, Hamas is brutal—but they didn’t appear out of nowhere. Decades of occupation, blockade, and apartheid radicalized people. That doesn’t justify Oct. 7, but ignoring the context is dishonest. Collective punishment—starving kids, bombing families—only creates more extremism.
And spare me the Holocaust guilt-tripping. Using Jewish suffering to justify Palestinian suffering is grotesque. Many Holocaust survivors, like those in Jewish Voice for Peace, opposed Zionism. Israel’s government includes far-right ministers who praise settlers burning Palestinian villages—are they "defending Jews" or fueling genocide?
The West props up Israel while pretending to care about "human rights." If you’ve really been to the region, you’d know: this isn’t about "rooting for Jews or Arabs." It’s about ending occupation, apartheid, and Western hypocrisy.
When I said "let them kill each other off", it was brutal. I know I went too far with that statement.
But I agree with the occupation, and western hypocrisy. It's sad to see , and it brings out the worst in humanity. Sometimes I think it's just better to start over.
I am aware that Israel has been moving against the Palestinian population for a while, and that created a vacuum, similar to Afghanistan and Iraq. Oct 7th attack may have been an offensive maneuver to thwart further Israeli attacks, but all it did was made it worse. Now Netanyahu is going to "exterminate all of the animals".
Either there needs to be intervention, by the west who usually causes such vacuums, or Israel will succeed. Cause if any other nation wages war on Israel, that's going to be a problem too.
We all live* on the same planet. Only habitable planet for light years. I've seen war and it's not worth the price.
Sometimes I just think our destruction is inevitable.
I don't support meddling in another country's plight. Especially a country that hates the west. I don't support genocide. You don't even know what's going on over there.
People dismiss the Oct 7th attacks, no matter how destructive it was, as a non factor because of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.
If Hamas never attacked and launched over 4,000 rockets into Israel and caused thousands of deaths and casualties, would Israel still treat them as "animals" and starve them out?
And why do you have a sudden affliction for Palestinians? Just because Trump is friends with Netanyahu? Because Israel is really trying to eliminate Palestinians, even before Oct 7th? Because you listen to MSM?
Like I said, none of those countries want interference from the west and they hate Americans. Even before the OEF/OIF wars.
You're big and strong, perhaps you can volunteer and deploy to that region, and put your money where your dirty mouth is.
"If Hamas never attacked and launched over 4,000 rockets into Israel and caused thousands of deaths and casualties, would Israel still treat them as "animals" and starve them out? "
The blockade started back in the 90s, so yes, they absolutely would.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/israel-posts-video-saying-are-no-innocent-civilians-gaza-rcna157111
"Israeli government accounts on the social media site X have been posting a video with a quote from a freed hostage, in which she says that “there are no innocent civilians” in Gaza"
You don't agree with me, so you wish death upon me?
Tell me you're a Democrat without telling me you're a Democrat.
I bet you'd exterminate all of the right wingers just because you don't agree with them. But yet you call Republicans fascist. How ironic.